How to handle winmail.dat attachments

How to handle winmail.dat attachments, internally in TB

bigg one Guru Posts: 612 Points: 550 Rating: 14 Authority: 14 Joined: 02 February 2005	#1 0 07 September 2005 03:01:31 Hi, I quite often recieve emails having a winmail.dat file attached. I read this is some MS Outlook specific format, and even found some free app that can extract attachments from such files. However it's quite inconvenient to additionally process these files. Is there any way (a plugin, trick or whatever) to see the content of these files directly in TB?

Roelof Otten

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07 September 2005 04:01:55

The easiest thing to do is to associate .dat files with fentun. That way double clicking on the winmail.dat will show you its contents.

Also you could try to convince your contacts that they shouldn't use the tnef format, as it's Outlook only. The last case I saw of someone using it ended by an OE user complaining that he couldn't open it.

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Marek Mikus Guru Posts: 489 Points: 929 Rating: 10 Authority: 10 Joined: 03 September 2003	#3 0 15 January 2008 19:47:11 Version 4.0 will extract MS-TNEF encoded files internally

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